Grazier's rural delivery system idea set to impress judges

LIVING and working rurally comes with costs and challenges that are ever increasing.

Central Queensland man Nick Dyer has channelled this and was working to change it through his innovative idea.

Nick has developed a tech start-up company that is essentially an "Uber for freight".

Moving back to his family's cattle property 40km east of Alpha, Nick became frustrated about how "difficult it is to get freight delivered in a timely manner".

Nick's business idea was a two-sided, peer-to-peer general freight platform where users could both advertise a freight request and make a delivery.

The business, Fluxx, used a mobile phone application that matched your freight delivery request with a peer travelling to the pick up location. A peer would then accept the request and be paid an agreed amount for delivering the freight.

"From my place I can see the highway, there is an untapped resource there, cars are going back and forth each day," Nick said.

"Why drive somewhere to pick up something when someone is headed to your location anyway?